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Idealist Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money.…
- The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
More Idealist Quotes
- I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband… — Michele Bachmann
- The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. — Malcolm De Chazal
- . . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence… — Grenville Kleiser
- Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern… — Amos Bronson Alcott
- An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. — Henry Ford
- It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. — Bertrand Russell
- Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic… — Woodrow Wilson
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt